Despite
repeated promises from the Obama administration, the dysfunctional
HealthCare.gov website is unlikely to be working at full capacity by the
end of November, according to the Washington Post.

Just
one week ago, President Obama told a crowd in Dallas that the "Web
site is already better than it was at the beginning of October, and
by the end of this month, we anticipate that it is going to be
working the way it is supposed to, all right?"

But
now, citing an official with knowledge of the project, the Post is reporting that the current version of the website can handle just 20,000-30,000 users— or half of its intended capacity— before
crashing, and only six of the site's ten identified defects have been
repaired.

According
to the Post's source, officials and contractors working on the
website now believe the only way to enroll any time soon is by using
another method, like the phone (President Obama made a similar admission two weeks ago).

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But there are reports of problems at call centers, too. From the Post:

Within the network of 17 federally sponsored call locations staffed by more than 10,000 people, consumers are discovering that telephone representatives lack the authority to correct errors in online applications. And sometimes, consumers with more than routine questions are promised that specialists will call them back, but the calls never come.

The
Affordable Care Act has been marred by technical problems since its
launch six weeks ago, with the broken website resulting in just a
fraction of the number of targeted enrollees and some people losing
their existing health care plans, something Obama said would not
happen. Still, the ACA launch has not been worse than Hurricane Katrina.